Part I : Origins and Theoretical Assumptions
CHAPTER 1 Diachrony vs Synchrony: The Complementary Evolution of Two (Ir)reconcilable Dimensions
CHAPTER 2 Historical Sociolinguistics: Origins, Motivations, and Paradigms
CHAPTER 3 Social History and the Sociology of Language
Part II : Methods for the Sociolinguistic Study of the History of Languages
CHAPTER 4 The Application of the Quantitative Paradigm to Historical Sociolinguistics: Problems with the Generalizability Principle
CHAPTER 5 The Uniformitarian Principle and the Risk of Anachronisms in Language and Social History
CHAPTER 6 The Use of Linguistic Corpora for the Study of Linguistic Variation and Change: Types and Computational Applications
CHAPTER 7 Editing the Medieval Manuscript in its Social Context
CHAPTER 8 Medical, Official, and Monastic Documents in Sociolinguistic Research
CHAPTER 9 The Use of Private Letters and Diaries in Sociolinguistic Investigation
CHAPTER 10 The Use of Literary Sources in Historical Sociolinguistic Research
CHAPTER 11 Early Advertising and Newspapers as Sources of Sociolinguistic Investigation
Part III : Linguistic and Socio-Demographic Variables
CHAPTER 12 Orthographic Variables
CHAPTER 13 Phonological Variables
CHAPTER 14 Grammatical Variables
CHAPTER 15 Lexical-Semantic Variables
CHAPTER 16 Pragmatic Variables
CHAPTER 17 Class, Age, and Gender-Based Patterns
CHAPTER 18 The Role of Social Networks and Mobility in Diachronic Sociolinguistics
CHAPTER 19 Race, Ethnicity, Religion, and Castes
Part IV : Historical Dialectology, Language Contact, Change, and Diffusion
CHAPTER 20 The Teleology of Change: Functional and Non-Functional Explanations for Language Variation and Change
CHAPTER 21 Internally- and Externally-Motivated Language Change
CHAPTER 22 Lexical Diffusion and the Regular Transmission of Language Change in its Sociohistorical Context
CHAPTER 23 The Timing of Language Change
CHAPTER 24 Innovation Diffusion in Sociohistorical Linguistics
CHAPTER 25 Historical Dialectology: Space as a Variable in the Reconstruction of Regional Dialects
CHAPTER 26 Linguistic Atlases: Empirical Evidence for Dialect Change in the History of Languages
CHAPTER 27 Historical Sociolinguistic Reconstruction beyond Europe: Case Studies from South Asia and Fiji
CHAPTER 28 Multilingualism, Code-Switching, and Language Contact in Historical Sociolinguistics
CHAPTER 29 The Impact of Migratory Movements on Linguistic Systems: Transplanted Speech Communities and Varieties from a Historical Sociolinguistic Perspective
CHAPTER 30 Convergence and Divergence in World Languages
Part V : Attitudes to Language
CHAPTER 31 Sociolinguistics and Ideologies in Language History
CHAPTER 32 Language Myths
CHAPTER 33 Linguistic Purism
CHAPTER 34 The Reconstruction of Prestige Patterns in Language History
CHAPTER 35 Written Vernaculars in Medieval and Renaissance Times